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Red Eye 2 returned New Year's Day 2026 on ITV and ITVX. Jingan wrote episode 3.

In October 2025, Jingan was admitted onto the inaugural ITV/EAST Network writers scheme.

Jingan’s script RAGE was shortlisted for the Studio 21/C21 Media Microscript competition 2025.

Deadline announces cast of Counsels including writers. Jingan as one of the writers (ep 4) of the series produced by Balloon Entertainment and BBC Scotland. Jingan was part of the original writersroom.

Stage & Screen

In 2025, she was announced as one of the guest writers (episode 4) on the BBC legal thriller 'Counsels' produced by Balloon Entertainment and BBC Scotland. She was also part of the original writersroom.

Jingan wrote Episode 4 of the ITV hit thriller 'Red Eye' created by Pete Dowling and produced by Sony International and Bad Wolf. The series stars Richard Armitage and Jing Lusi and premiered on ITV1 on Sunday 21 April 2024, with all episodes available to stream on ITVX. It aired on Disney/Hulu in July 2025. Jingan wrote episode 3 for series 2 which aired New Years Day 2026 on ITV.

Jingan is developing TV projects with Carnival Films, Insight Management and Production, Black Camel Pictures, Bona Dea Films, and West Road Pictures.

Her debut feature film, 'Number Two Daughter' was developed through BBC Writersroom and was the winner of the Triforce Events Script Search Competition in 2020 with Greenacre Films. It is currently in development with Bona Dea Films and the British Film Institute (BFI).

She was named a Broadcast Now Hotshot 2024 and was previously selected by the BBC and Idris Elba as ‘one to watch’ on the BBC Talent Hotlist 2017. She has won awards from Netflix and the Society of Literature. She has TV credits on Biff and Chip for CBBC/BBC Kids.

Jingan was the first playwright commissioned in English for FILTH (Failed in London, Try Hong Kong) which premiered at the 42nd Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2014. From 2014–2018, she produced the sold-out Foreign Goods showcases at Theatre503, the Park Theatre, and the Arcola, culminating in the publication of the  Foreign Goods  anthology (published by Bloomsbury). Her play Life and Death of a Journalist received critical acclaim at VAULT Festival 2020, The Guardian called it “intensely smart… prickling with intelligence and anger.” In 2023, her play Hong Kong Tragedy was shortlisted for the Jermyn Street Theatre Woven Voices Prize. She was also selected for the Sky Comedy x Birmingham Rep Scheme in 2022.

She has been in writersrooms with Bad Wolf, Balloon, Channel 4, and CBBC/BBC Kids. In 2021, she completed the highly competitive Channel 4 Screenwriting Course, selected as one of 12 writers from over 3,000 submissions. She trained with BBC Writersroom’s invitation-only London Voices scheme, and is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme (2012), Hampstead Theatre’s Heat & Light (2012), and Soho Theatre Writers Lab (2013).

Her plays have been staged at the Arcola Theatre, Theatre503, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Pleasance Theatre, Old Vic, VAULT Festival, Jacksons Lane, Old Red Lion, New Wimbledon Theatre, and Camden People’s Theatre.

Jingan is also a story consultant, having contributed to RED EYE (S1) and will be advising on the 29th series of SILENT WITNESS (BBC) airing 2026.

She is represented by Nick Fenwick at Curtis Brown

Awards

  • Broadcast Now Hot Shot

    2024

  • Netflix Arts Fund

    2020 & 2021

  • Society of Authors Fund

    2020 & 2021

  • Winner of Triforce Events Competition with Greenacre Films

    2020

  • Women of the Future Award (Commendation)

    2018

  • Idris Elba/BBC Talent Hotlist

    2017

  • Peggy Ramsay Foundation Award

    2016

  • Michael Grandage Company Futures Fund

    2016

  • Hong Kong Arts and Development Fund

    2014

Training

  • Channel 4 Screenwriting Scheme

    2021 & 22

  • Sky Studios Comedy Scheme

    2021 & 22

  • BBC Writersroom BAME Script Editing Scheme

    2016

  • Park Theatre Script Accelerator

    2014

  • Soho Theatre’s Writers Lab

    2013

  • Royal Court Young Writers Programme

    2011

  • Hampstead Theatre’s Heat & Light Programme

    2011

Research & Teaching

Jingan holds a BA (Hons) in English and Film Studies from King’s College London, a Master’s in Creative Writing from Oxford University and a PhD in Film Studies from King's College London. She also holds a Foundation in Art at Parsons School of Design where she received a full scholarship to attend.

She has previously acted as a dissertation supervisor for the London Film Academy and regularly supervises BA and MA dissertations in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. From 2022 to 2023, she convened the 'Introduction to Screenwriting' module in the School of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London, where she also lectured across multiple screen and media modules. She has previously taught at Brunel University and held teaching and research roles across the Departments of Film Studies and CMCI at King’s, including within King’s Academy, where she assessed Global Talent Awards. She regularly delivers workshops and continues to mentor emerging writers across various institutions.​

Her first academic monograph,  Soho on Screen: Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963 (Berghahn Books), with a foreword by Peter Bradshaw, was published in hardback in May 2022 and in paperback in February 2025. The book was featured on  BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking  with Dr. Matthew Sweet (May 2021), and she delivered an invited lecture at BFI Southbank for the New Writings series (June 2023). Her second monograph is currently under peer review. Most recently, her chapter on Emeric Pressburger was published in Global London on Screen (Manchester University Press).

She has presented at numerous international conferences and is published in several peer-reviewed journals. Her broader public engagement includes appearances on the Soho Bites, Cities in Cinema, and Soho on Screen podcasts (produced by Dom Delargy). In 2020, she founded the Cities in Cinema network.

As a journalist and critic, Jingan is a regular contributor to The Guardian Sight and Sound , Nylon Magazine,  South China Morning Post and the London Review of Books. She has previously worked as an editorial intern at British Vogue and The Guardian’s Books section.​

Contact

Jingan lives in London with her husband and two children.